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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Works in Progress Wednesday

We're back from vacation, a week in paradise. I think that sewing makes it easier to come home -- as soon as we got on the plane, I started thinking about all the projects that I was looking forward to working on! (more vacation photos, coming soon)

I had started on this project before we left, and I finished it up yesterday. I found the idea here. I had been wanting to try wavy line quilting for the longest time, and this was a cute little project to try out lots of different types of quilting. The wavy line quilting took me awhile to figure out -- it didn't work to just elongate the zig zag stitch on my machine --this just gave me bigger zig zags! But I figured it out by using a "decorative" stitch that I'd never tried before, and I LOVE how it looks!

finished with an invisible zipper

I had been planning to quilt this "tumbler" quilt with straight lines, but after falling in love with wavy line quilting, I changed my mind. I finished quilting this after the girls were in bed last night. Unfortunately I had to order fabric for the binding (I have never made a quilt using charm squares, so I didn't think about binding until it was nearly done!), so I won't be able to finish it until that arrives in the mail.

Oh, I almost forgot, I picked out fabric for the Supernova Quilt Along at Freshly Pieced! I think this Fat Eight Bundle of Sugar Pop will be perfect. Now I just need to decide if I should use aqua or snow Kona for the solid.

Love your Supernova fabrics AND your wavy line (& other) quilting! Great pillow! I just discovered a wavy line stitch on my machine recently too - have only used in once, but is it my imagination, or does the quilting go faster? Not sure, but I love it.

Hi, I'm Michelle, a lucky mom of two very creative little people. Our house is our studio-there are handmade pictures on our walls and quilts everywhere. My little artists (8 yr old twins Holly & Alexia) are busy with creations of all kinds, and I try to fit in as much sewing and quilting as I can. I love to make things, both with my little artists and after they are sleeping.
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